Person
David Rapaport
Hungarian-born American psychologist and psychoanalytic theorist (1911–1960), known for systematising ego psychology. He translated Heinz Hartmann's "Ich-Psychologie und Anpassungsproblem" into English as "Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation" (1958).
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- 1958 influenced by Heinz Hartmann
Rapaport translated Hartmann's 1939 monograph into English (1958) and, in his historical survey of psychoanalytic ego psychology (1959), treated Hartmann's work as the basis of the field he set out to systematise.
References
- Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation1939Evidence for a relation
- Identity and the Life Cycle: Selected Papers1959Evidence for a relation